It’s about having fun while you dance. That’s what young cloggers say about dancing on a traditional clogging team. This year’s crop of dancers is the strongest in many years, keeping mountain ...
In the Bay Area, our nearest mountain range is the Sierra Nevada, not the Appalachian Mountains. But a traditional form of dance rooted in the Appalachians found its way west, probably with the Gold ...
Press release from Mars Hill University: The Bailey Mountain Cloggers, Mars Hill University’s precision dancing team, is a national champion for the 31st time. The team won the title for its 8-Couple ...
A highlight of the annual Bascom Lamar Lunsford Mountain Music Festival is the presentation of its namesake award. Although Hurricane Helene preempted this year’s festival, the 2024 Bascom Lamar ...
Jeff Atkins is all about family. When the Holiday Parade rolls through downtown Asheville on Saturday, Atkins and his whole family will be together, dancing. Atkins is founder of the award-winning ...
People start clogging for a lot of reasons. Some think it’s fun. Some think it’s good exercise. For Melissa Orr, it’s both of those things and much more. Clogging is a family affair for the Orrs: ...
No. This is not your father’s clogging experience. Not the Irish step dancers you might have seen at River Dance. Definitely not the Geico commercial’s version of noisy, spaghetti-eating cloggers ...
Matthew Lombardi has been clogging for half his life and it all started because he’s an ardent FSU Seminole fan. “I went to a Downtown GetDown and there was a clogging performance.” Jeff Wood, founder ...
It was a shared passion for dancing that brought Gregg Nevitt and his wife, Cami together. “We met square dancing,” Nevitt said. “At that point, I’d also been clogging for eight years. And so while we ...
This year will be a bittersweet one for instructor Boni Ramos and her ballet folklórico dancers. Last month, her mother and executive director of the cultural education organization, Emma D. Ramos, ...